Team Ride or Team Stride?

Thank you very much to all the families which made our January Walk to School Event a great success!

It was delightful to see the playground crammed with scooters, and hear the children talk about the things they saw on their way to school. Hopefully this will inspire children to walk or ride to school every 'Walk to School' event, every week or every day - and develop life-long healthy habits in the process.

Team Stride wore something GREEN and Team Ride wore something ORANGE. See if you can work out who was on which team!



A few facts:

• Walking to school can keep you healthy and happy.
• Children should do 60 minutes physical activity, five times a week.
• Walking helps reduce traffic on the roads and around school, making the community safer and more attractive.
• The average car journey to school creates enough carbon dioxide to fill 30 balloons!
• The average annual spend on petrol for the school run is £200. Walking can save a lot of money.

Fruit Kebabs

In year one we have been learning about different types of fruit. We had a tasting session to decide which fruits we liked the best. Then we designed and made some yummy fruit kebabs.

Year 1 Freeze Frames

In Cedar class this morning we have been learning to show emotions using the freeze frame technique. We explored feeling excited, worried, scared and cross. Can you guess what our feelings are from these photos?



We even had a guest Governor take part in one of the freeze frames! The children (and Governor) enjoyed their drama lesson based on The Gingerbread Man.

Y3/4 Badminton Skills Festival

On Monday evening twelve Y4 sporting volunteers made the short journey to Cantell Secondary School for a Badminton skills festival run by Sport Solent and as part of the Sainsburys School Games.

Oakwood had three teams, each consisting of four players, competing in the festival. Each team of four practised and then scored points in seven different badminton events. Here's how they got on...

	Activity 1 – Drop Shot	Activity 2 – Overhead Clear	Activity 3 – Shuttle Runs	Activity 4 – Shuttle Keep Ups	Activity 5 – Long Serve	Activity 6 – Short Serve	Activity 7 – Rally!
Team	5 points per shuttle	5 points per shuttle	5 points per shuttle	Highest totals per player	10 points per shuttle in hoop	10 points per cone hit	Accumulative Rally Score	Total	Ranking out of 13
Oakwood A	75	25	95	73	20	40	20	358	2
Oakwood B	75	40	80	75	30	30	5	345	3
Oakwood C	55	40	85	62	15	15	10	282	6

Year 3 instruct their planes to fly!

Today, year 3 discussed what made a set of good and bad instructions.

They were given the task to make a paper airplane by only being given some simple instructions (not even knowing what they were making.)

The children then tested their finished products! Have as look to see how it went.

Award winners

It's only week one of Oakwood Primary school but both pupils and staff have been busy.
Oakwood has just been awarded the Silver Quality Mark for PE by the Youth Sport Trust. This shows our commitment to delivering excellent PE and physical activity opportunities for all our children.

But we won't stop there! We are building on this by having a greater number of children take part in a wider range of competitive sports with the aim of earning a Sainsburys School Games medal too.

Keep a look out for our badminton team who are in action in the next few weeks.

Oh no they didn't!

Oh yes they did!

Oakwood Primary pupils had a super time today, watching the M&M Productions version of 'Dick Whittington'.



Can you spot his mischievous cat?

Year 4 get in a Mud-dle

The hardy souls of year 4 braved the January elements and went for a walk in Lordswood woods to investigate different animal habitats. The wannabe Bear Grylls also built their own shelters. Fortunately, Mr Ackland did not live up to the threat of pouring water over the top (with children inside) to see which ones were water tight.  

Oakwood Primary School - Official Opening!

Today was our Official Opening Day!

Even though we became Oakwood Primary School at midnight on 1 January, and our first day with children was 7 January, it's been the first sunny day for our special event!

Everyone, children and adults, released an Oakwood Primary School balloon to celebrate the new school. (Every balloon has a tag, so we'll wait to see which one travels the furthest! Look at a map of finds!)



We also got our youngest and oldest pupils and staff members to cut a commemorative ribbon on our new sign.



A big thank you to everyone who helped decorate and blow up balloons, and to Sainsbury's Lordshill, who donated some new books for our library!

Some of the pictures will be in the Daily Echo on Friday 10 January.

Give us a Sign!

Did you pass the school today?

Did you notice anything new...?